Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to endosmosis; of the nature of endosmosis. Also
endosmic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to
endosmosis .
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Examples
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At all events, the endosmotic or exosmotic action of the skin of a living body must necessarily play an important _role_ in the absorption of medicinal agents; and, on the other hand, it is plain that fats, which render the living skin impermeable, necessarily also diminish or entirely neutralize its osmotic action.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various
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But as soon as the cement-ducts penetrated into the body-cavity of the host and were bathed by its fluids, an endosmotic interchange must necessarily have been set up between the materials dissolved in these fluids and in the contents of the cement-ducts, and this interchange could not be without influence upon the nourishment of the parasite.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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